This property on Mallord Street shares a wall with the home that AA Milne lived in for 21 years and is a fine house indeed. As the old saying goes, if you can’t live in the former house of AA Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, then at the very least you should live next door. Naturally this is easier said than done. An entrance hall as traditional as Winnie the Pooh itself. Or at least it was, until the recent launch onto the market of this house in Mallord Street in Chelsea, London. On the market for £6.45 million with Knight Frank, the property boasts five bedrooms and three reception roo ..read more

Sharrington Hall near Holt manages to pay homage to its past, present and future thanks to a splendid restoration programme by the current owners. There’s a certain skill in marrying the elegance of the traditional English country home with the modern fittings that make life easy, more comfortable and more bearable. Emma Sims-Hilditch is one of the great proponents of this art, which sounds easy in theory, but in reality, is much more difficult to execute. A reception room. Behold the timeless charm. That’s not to say that every Elizabethan home with a flat-screen television and induction h ..read more

Nine-bedroom Plush Manor was once the home of Alfred Brendel and sits in one of Dorset's most desirable locations. For several years, Plush Manor, which occupies an elevated position within Dorset’s Piddle Valley, hosted wedding receptions, many of which were held in a decommissioned church that stands on the edge of the property’s nearly seven acres of gardens and grounds. During its heyday, speeches were sometimes given from the pulpit. The church is no longer associated with the property. An entrance hall in which to make an entrance. Listed Grade II, Plush Manor is a Georgian home with ..read more

Arabella Youens takes a look at the aptly-named Beach Haven, in the heart of one of North Cornwall's most popular spots. If you are are house hunting in Cornwall, there is a general rule of thumb: the further you go down the A30, the further your money will stretch. Our recent look at the dramatic Porthledden, near St Just and Penzance, demonstrates this, with 10 bedrooms and 13,000 sq ft on sale at £5m; contrast this with Constantine Cottage, where the same budget ‘only’ gets you four bedrooms and 2,700 sq ft. You don’t have to be quite that rich to enjoy a house in this gorgeous part of the ..read more

Buckle up for our latest round up — and bring the trousers with the deep pockets. The Buckholt Estate in Hampshire is for sale.Northamptonshire — £1,650,000 A 19th century mill converted into a wonderful seven-bedroom house. There is garaging, stables and a paddock in this home surrounded by countryside. For sale with Michael Graham. See more pictures and details for this property. Buckinghamshire — £2,750,000 A Jacobean-style, Grade II-listed house with painted ceilings, secret passageways and murals. The mix of styles inside is something to behold, but it’s a seven-bedroom house wit ..read more

At Hales Hall near Norwich, you can live a fairytale life in this seven bedroom home that's positively bursting with history. There’s nothing quite like a proper Tudor house. As well as providing large open spaces for living and entertaining, they are steeped in history — what stories can these buildings, with their delicate pink brickwork and ancient timbers tell us? As fine an example as you will see is Hales Hall, a seven-bedroom Grade I-listed Tudor house in nine acres near Loddon in Norfolk, jointly on the market with Savills and Blue Book Agency for £3.9m. Built by Sir James Hobart, Att ..read more

Grade I-listed Dorfold Hall in Cheshire was supposedly built for a visit by James I and is one of the finest country homes on the market today. The vast, Grade I-listed Jacobean Dorfold Hall, just outside the market town of Nantwich in Cheshire, was built, so the story goes, for a visit by James I. Completed in 1621, the property and its surrounding estate of 101 acres have been in the home of the Roundell family ever since, making a few detours along the way down the female line. Dorfold Hall is available as a whole, for £11.4 million, or in two separate lots, the latter made up of the Showg ..read more

The fastest-selling housing markets, the Easter spike in homes put up for sale, and the 10 most in-demand areas of the home. Here's our round-up of what's happening in the world of bricks and mortar. This idyllic house in Hampshire's Test Valley is in the village of Wherwell. Hard to believe houses could ever take so long to sell in such a lovely part of the world.The areas where homes sell like hotcakes Good news — for some, at least. The time it takes to sell a house has plummeted across many pockets of the housing market, according to Yopa. In Hampshire’s Test Valley, it took sellers nearly ..read more

Ven Ayr in Lelant is a six-bedroom beauty in the village of Lelant that boasts beautiful interiors and south-east facing gardens. When you live most of your adult life in a place as small as the United Kingdom, you start to think you know every place and every thing. That is, of course, an absurd idea, but working here, you do often find yourselves in the realm of the absurd. Thankfully, this country is so dense and diverse, that there is plenty still to be discovered. For example, I had never heard of the seaside village of Lelant in Cornwall, but having looked at some pictures, I think it m ..read more

Grade II-listed Homebush Cottage might be a shell, but with a little love and renovation, can be returned to its former glory. Without wishing to completely shatter the fourth wall, the property I’m about to describe to you was described to me as ‘a wreck’. ‘Would you write up that wreck please James’ came the instruction from on high, and I was intrigued. What was I to be confronted with? Some shattered old barn, full-to-bursting with cobwebs and cowdung? Half a windmill? A bomb shelter? Some of the 11.75 acres included with the property. That’s the joy of the phrase wreck — it can mean so ..read more